Baby chicks

[colette peters]

I just got 3 one month old Amarucanas and just curious how long do I need to keep them under the heat lamp?
They are inside our home in the laundry room. We keep the house around 70° Day and at night 63°

 

[Ghosty]

At 4 weeks they will be fine without a heat lamp inside. If it's not too cold out, they could go outside during the day. By 6 weeks they should be ok outside in cooler temps.

 

[Fishkeeper]

They don't need a heat lamp, they have feathers. Chicks need a heat lamp because they don't have any feathers, just fluff.

 

[colette peters]

At 4 weeks they will be fine without a heat lamp inside. If it's not too cold out, they could go outside during the day. By 6 weeks they should be ok outside in cooler temps.

Thank you

 

[colette peters]

@Ghosty and in the coop with the other hens when the neck feathers become mature?

 

[Fishkeeper]

You have to introduce them carefully. Put them where the other hens can see but can't reach them, as close as possible, as soon as you can. Once they stop paying any real attention to each other, put them together with the others, but keep a close eye on them for any fighting.

 

[colette peters]

You have to introduce them carefully. Put them where the other hens can see but can't reach them, as close as possible, as soon as you can. Once they stop paying any real attention to each other, put them together with the others, but keep a close eye on them for any fighting.

Yes would definitely do that. I’m thinking next week I’ll start letting them be close to them. I have chicken wire fence to contain them, while the other hens can just observe them.